Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

Polly Ralda recently found herself in a precarious position at Waimea Bay on Oahu, nearly getting decapitated by an outrigger ...

Ask any of the big-wave surfers who put their lives at risk in the 2024-25 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, and they’d tell you it was honor just to compete in the 40 to 50-foot waves that crashed ...

The TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge is a premier surfing event on the Big Wave surfing calendar. The event draws elite surfers from across the globe to the treacherous waves of Praia do Norte in ...

The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, a pinnacle event in the world of surfing, is back with its 2024 waiting period officially beginning on December 17. Held at Waimea Bay on Oʻahu’s North Shore, ...

Tune in to see who will win Ride of the Year, Best Paddle, Wipeout of the Year, and Surfer of the Year in the men and women’s fields on 10/19! There’s little money to be made surfing big waves. It’s ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...

There is a popular, Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary television series, “100 Foot Wave,” just beginning its third season of production. It’s about the personal lives of big wave surfers and their ...

There's few surfers whose exploits have truly reached the mainstream in profound, unprecedented ways, and one is Garret ...

Frenchman Laurent Pujol, riding epic swells across the world on a custom Jet Ski, has one of the most singular jobs in cinematography. By Gary Baum Senior Writer “Big-wave surfing is life-and-death,” ...